S&P CNX Nifty is a well diversified 50 stock index accounting for 24 sectors of the economy. It is used for a variety of purposes such as benchmarking fund portfolios, index based derivatives and index funds.

S&P CNX Nifty is owned and managed by India Index Services and Products Ltd. (IISL), which is a joint venture between NSE and CRISIL. IISL is India's first specialised company focussed upon the index as a core product. IISL have a consulting and licensing agreement with Standard & Poor's (S&P), who are world leaders in index services.

The next rung of liquid securities after S&P CNX Nifty is the CNX Nifty Junior. It may be useful to think of the S&P CNX Nifty and the CNX Nifty Junior as making up the 100 most liquid stocks in India.

As with the S&P CNX Nifty, stocks in the CNX Nifty Junior are filtered for liquidity, so they are the most liquid of the stocks excluded from the S&P CNX Nifty. The maintenance of the S&P CNX Nifty and the CNX Nifty Junior are synchronised so that the two indexes will always be disjoint sets; i.e. a stock will never appear in both indexes at the same time. Hence it is always meaningful to pool the S&P CNX Nifty and the CNX Nifty Junior into a composite 100 stock index or portfolio.

CNX 100 is a diversified 100 stock index accounting for 35 sector of the economy.

CNX 100 is owned and managed by India Index Services & Products Ltd. (IISL). Which is a joint venture between CRISIL & NSE. IISL is India's first specialized company focused upon the index as a core products. IISL has a licensing & marketing agreement with Standard & Poor's (S&P), who are leader's in index services.

The S&P CNX 500 is India’s first broad-based benchmark of the Indian capital market for comparing portfolio returns vis-a-vis market returns. The S&P CNX 500 represents about 96% of total market capitalisation and about 93% of the total turnover on the NSE.

The S&P CNX 500 companies are disaggregated into 72 industry indexes viz. S&P CNX Industry Indexes. Industry weightages in the index reflect the industry weightages in the market. For e.g. if the banking sector has a 5% weightage in the universe of stocks traded on NSE, banking stocks in the index would also have an approx. representation of 5% in the index.

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The medium capitalised segment of the stock market is being increasingly perceived as an attractive investment segment with high growth potential. The primary objective of the CNX Midcap Index is to capture the movement and be a benchmark of the midcap segment of the market.

The medium capitalized segment of the stock market is being increasingly perceived as an attractive investment segment with high growth potential. The primary objective of the Nifty Midcap 50 Index is to capture the movement of the midcap segment of the market. It can also be used for index-based derivatives trading.

Almost every institutional investor and off-shore fund enterprise with an equity exposure in India would like to have an instrument for measuring returns on their equity investment in dollar terms. To facilitate this, a new index the S&P CNX Defty-Dollar Denominated S&P CNX Nifty has been developed.

S&P CNX Defty is S&P CNX Nifty, measured in dollars. The S&P CNX Defty is calculated real-time. When there is currency volatility, the S&P CNX Defty is an ideal device for a foreign investor to know where he stands, even intraday

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Computations are done using the S&P CNX Nifty index calculated on the NEAT trading system of NSE and end of previous day Exchange Rate(US $-Re).

The medium capitalised segment of the stock market is being increasingly perceived as an attractive investment segment with high growth potential. The primary objective of the CNX MidCap 200 Index is to capture the movement and be a benchmark of the midcap segment of the market.